Pueblo Indian houses Pueblo houses in a cave.

Map of the Pueblo Indians region

Pueblo People Four Corners Region, North America 7000-present

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We tapped rivers to irrigate our maize crops. We also cultivated beans, squash, and sunflowers. We also constructed permanent stone and adobe buildings. These buildings are similar to todays apartment complexes, as we built houses on top of each other on the outside of caves.

Culture

Along with eatting maize, beans, squash, and sunflowers, we also ate wild plants and small game such as rabbits. Men would be skilled in making baskets while women were skilled pottery makers. Traded with other tribes for food or clothing. We also traded sea shells, cotton, and pottery, and turquoise was used in trading.

Religion

Again, turquoise adorned many religious jewlery. We worshipped many gods that would help our crops grow, like rain and sun gods. Basically, our gods represented natural phenomena that we could not explain.

Blog

Blog 1: (7000): We make our homes out of natural caves or on top of mesas. We made the most of our arid, rocky terrain and canyons of the Four Corners region of the United States by using adobe to build our houses. These pueblos interconnected several rooms and homes together. Adobe was shaped by a Pueblo Indian who had the job of mason. Blog 2: (8000): We developed a complex irrigation system so that we could grow our crops in the arid conditions of the southwest. We did so with minimal tools that we crafted out of stone, wood, and bone because we hadn't developed metallurgy yet. We raised turkey and hunted small game, but most of our food came from our crops of corn (maize), squash, and beans. Even though the weather was hot, we cooked most of our meals. Blog 3: (1500s-today): In the 1500s the Spanish came and found our villages and called them pueblos, which is where we get our name. The Spanish tried to force us to become Catholic, we have been able to maintain much of our traditional lifestyle, even until today. Today, there are about 35,000 of our people living in New Mexico and Arizona along the Colorado and Rio Grande river.

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